... '; and there are occasional glimpses of rackets and rip-offs being conducted in the farther reaches of the empire. Other striking snippets: Maurice Oldfield's homosexuality is stated as fact- but unsourced. White asked Oldfield about 'allegations that he was a homosexual and had accepted his denial'. During the Rhodesian UDI crisis, we are told, Harold Wilson asked White to prepare a plan 'for the overthrow of Smith', but the officer to whom White gave the job sympathised with Rhodesia and reported 'he could find no anti-Smith group to stage a counter-coup'. (p. 344) The late George Brown, we are told on p. 356, was a 'CIA source'. ...

... Absolutely fascinating stuff. The long encounter between Alexander Haig and a Cuban minister, with Haig lecturing him on Cuba having no right to intervene in the affairs of other countries, is an absolutely priceless illustration of the mind-boggling hypocrisy of so much US foreign policy. Copies are free on request from The Cold War International History Project Bulletin, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 100 Jefferson Drive SW, Washington DC 20560. They are also on the project's Website: http://www.seas.gwu.edu/nsarchive/cwihp Flatland Flatland 14 contains 63 pages of articles and book catalogue. It's the mixture as before, albeit with a greater emphasis on Wilhelm Reich: pieces on Reich, Alan ...

... may have unwittingly helped propagate one of the establishment's myths about class betrayal in the short term, but in the longer term the Philby exposé opened a door into the secret Whitehall world which the manderins could never close again. Notes This section of book was published in the Sunday Times 24 August 1997. The episode also involved Prime Minister Harold Wilson acting as go-between- another example of Wislon trying to be a 'good boy' where the spooks were concerned. MI5 had it in for Mountbatten and I suspect it was they who relaunched the defunct International Times circa 1981 to run disinformation through it, including the Mountbatten-is-gay story. I have to write 'circa' because there is no date ...

... Quakers came up with the notion of speaking truth to power in the US, we have had the most obnoxious, militaristic and aggressive American foreign policy imaginable. Millions of people have died at the hands of American military power while the left has been speaking truth to it. The central fact remains: the party of Clement Attlee, Harold Wilson, Barbara Castle and Jack Jones, largely funded by the trade unions, chose as leader someone who, as well as being Mrs Thatcher in all but name, is the godfather to one of Rupert Murdoch's children, never saw a powerful arse he couldn't kiss, and, most striking of all, hated the Labour Party and everything ...

... the former Prime Minister and his secretary Marcia Falkender made by Barrie Penrose and Roger Courtiour. The only paper to give any prominence to the programme was The Daily Mail, whose two-page spread on March 13 conveyed the seriousness as well accuracy of the coup plot allegations. On that day The Guardian's new political editor Patrick Wintour gave us nothing on Wilson, but a full page on the former leader of the Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire under the headline: 'I should have been a Trappist monk.' Ah, the joys of joined-up journalism. Last| Contents| Next ...

... ambiguous. It is true that British components of the Anglo-American intelligence and surveillance system, notably some GCHQ bases in the Far East, provided intelligence to the US. But despite a great deal of arm-twisting from LBJ, and despite Wilson's utter dependence on the US at this point for financial assistance to defend the value of the pound, Harold Wilson refused to send even a token force to Vietnam. (Apologists for Maurice Oldfield hint that he was instrumental in keeping the British state out of Vietnam.) The paragraph of Pilger's I have quoted illustrates two things Pilger does which I think are a mistake. He overworks the available evidence in support of his theses when there is no ...

... most grotesque during the Irish War of Independence when Churchill was responsible for the activities of British death squads in Ireland. Police and soldiers in plainclothes were used to assassinate members and sympathisers of Sinn Fein. Churchill took great delight in hearing about these activities first-hand, much to the disgust of the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Sir Henry Wilson. If this had become public knowledge at the time it would probably have ruined him, but historians take a much more generous view of such minor misdemeanours. The Bolshevik menace Churchill's great obsession during the early post-war years was the threat of Bolshevism. Stafford provides an interesting account of his instigation of an attempt to destroy George Lansbury, ...

... The German resistance faced great difficulties in carrying out its plans due to the highly oppressive and intrusive nature of life in the Third Reich. It may also not have been clear to some German anti-Nazi figures what they would gain by going along with the American proposal. After all, the intrusion of the US into Europe in 1919 under Woodrow Wilson had been seen by many as the cause of the difficulties that led to such chronic instability on the continent.( [7]) Once the Soviet Union had a significant military advantage, Stalin and his colleagues lost interest in dealing with the Hitler regime. And for many in Britain – and the US – the critical issue was ...

... British Journal for Politics and International Relations, 2006, Vol. 8, pp.214-237. [3] It is possible, of course, that the 'Jewish businesmen' story is just that, a story, that Blair received Israeli government money fronted by 'businessmen'. Either way, as has been demonstrated in Bernard Donoughue's Dairies of the 1974-76 Wilson government, reviewed in Lobster 49, Labour, Israel and British Jewish businessmen is not a new story. Now that David Cameron looks like a possible winner, he is starting to attract Jewish donations. See Bernard Josephs and Leon Symons, 'Team Cameron's big Jewish backers', The Jewish Chronicle,13 October 2006 at <www.thejc.com/ ...

... may have been that in the absence of a really effective hegemonic concept of control, violence was resorted to in order to enforce a consensus of fear. Although this must remain a hypothesis to be worked out later, the succession of high-level assassinations and engineered removals of top politicians (Willy Brandt in 1974, Gough Whitlam in 1975, Harold Wilson in 1976, Aldo Moro and Pope John Paul I in 1978, and Olof Palme in 1986, to name but the most spectacular cases) can probably only be understood if seen in the context of a single process.' (p. 128) Of the coincidence between right wing terrorism and the rise of free-market liberalism in this ...